Attachment for envelope blanker printing machines



1 1,613,918 1927' E. G. VALLIER ATTACHMENT FOR ENVELOPE BLANKER PRINTINGMACHINES Filed July 28. 1922 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1 1 1 i ,5 r 1% f 1INVENTOR. 20 ,21 'ZQZ/QQL L I q 2,2 ArroRf'vE s.

Jan. 11, 1927- G. VALLIER ATTACHMENT FOR ENVELOPE BLANKER PRINTINGMACHINES 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 28, 1922 111M all LNVENKOR.

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Patented Jan. 11, 1%27.

Ul'lE STATES ELIJAH G. VALLIEE,

ENVELOPE C0., OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN,

PATENT OFFICE.

A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

ATTACHMENT FOB ENVELOPE BLANKER PRINTING MACHINES.

Application filed July 28,

This invention relates to attachments for envelope blanker printingmachines and has for one of its objects to provide a device forautomatically jogging the envelope blanks to properly line them uppreparatory to their being folded and formed for use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a oggingattachmentrwhich may be readily and quickly placed upon machines Halready in use, and which may be incorporated with equal facility in newmachines.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an attachment ofthe class described which is readily adjustable to accomniodateenvelopes of different sizes.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an attachmenthaving an adjust ment whereby the length of the jogging movement may bereadily controlled.

still further object of the invention is to provide a device of theclass described which will be simple in construction, comparativelyinexpensive to manufacture, and more eiiicient in use than those whichhave been heretofore proposed.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in the novel details ofconstruction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter describedand particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like numerals designatelike parts in all the views;

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a portion of a standard Harris blankerprinting machine with the present invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken approximately on the planeindicated by the line 2- 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of thearrows;

F 3 is an inverted plan view of a portion of the parts shown in Figs. 1.and 2, illustrating the jogging attachment in place beneath the platformor table of the envelope machine; and,

l? 4. is a vertical sectional view, partly in elevation, on an enlargedscale, of one of the ogging members.

In the said drawings the numeral 5 designates the framework of astandard Harris blanker printing machine, which machine includes a drum6, against which presses a 1922. Serial No. 578,243.

plurality of guiding and feeding rollers T which are adapted to feedenvelope blanks downwardly to a plurality of guiding rods or fingers 8and 9, suitably supported by posts 10 and 11, respectively, carried by asubstantially horizontal platform or table 12.

The parts so far described are all of standard and well knownconstruction, and need not be described in detail since they may be ofany preferred form and constitutes no especial part of the presentinvention.

The jogging attachment proper comprises a plurality of verticallyextending posts or rods '15, which extend. upwardly through theangularly disposed slots 16 provided in the table or platform 12, seeFigs. 1 and 4. The said posts or rods are provided below the said tablewith the horizontal guiding and supporting rods 17, which may be securedto the said posts 15 by means of the thumb screws 18 and which areslidably mounted in guide members 19, rigidly carried by the undersurface of the said table or platform Secured to the lower ends of theposts 15, as by the pivotal connection 20, are the actuating rods orbars 21, which may be clamped to the said connection 20 by means ofthumb screws 22. The posts 15 are preferably arranged in the form of aparallelogram and at the approximate center thereof, beneath the tableor platform 27, there is provided a rocking disc 23 pivotally secured tothe said table 12, as by the stud 2 1. The said disc 23 is provided witha plurality of crank or wrist pins 25 to which the free ends of theactuating rods 21 are connected,

preferably in pairs, as clearly shown in Fig.

The said disc 23 is provided with an extension or ear 26 to which ispivoted one end of an actuating rod 27, the other end of which ispivotally connected, as at 28, to an arm 29, carried by a rock shaft 30,journalled in the frame 5 of the machine. The said arm 29' is preferablyslotted as at 31 to engage the pivotal connection 28, whereby the throwor movement of the connecting rod 27, and consequently of the joggingposts 15, may be adjusted to accommodate different sizes of envelopes.

The shaft may be driven by any suitable connection with a rotating oroscillating part of the machine 5.

Inoperation the envelopes are fed down between the drum 6 and therollers 7 to the guiding fingers 8 and 9, and from the said fingers theypass to the platform 12 between the upright posts 15. The edges of theenvelope blanks engage the sides of the said posts 15, as is indicatedin dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the said posts are reciprocated in theirslots 16 through the medium of the oscillating disc 23 and itsconnections to cause the pile of blanks to be vibrated to bring theiredges into accurate alignment.

The posts 15 may be adjusted relative to the actuating rods 21 throughthe medium of the thumb screws 22 to accommodate different sizedenvelopes, and the amount of vibration or reciprocation iniparted to thesaid posts may be readily controlled by shifting'the pivotal connection28 to different positions within the slot 31 of tne arm 29. Of coursethe further the said connection is located from the rock shatt 31, thegreater will be the motion transmitted to the connecting rod 27, andvice versa.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details ofconstruction as well as the arrangement of parts without departing fromthe spirit of the invention, and

therefore it is not Wished to be limited to the above disclosureexceptas may be required by the claims.

lVhat is claimed is: l. The combination with an envelope blankingmachine having a drum and a receiving table provided with a plurality ofspaced slots arranged in oppositely disposed acutely converging pairs,of a plurality of slidable posts carried by said table, projectingthrough said slots and adapted to receive envelope blanks from said drumbetween them; and 1neans for reciprocating said posts in said slots tocause them to engage the edges of said blanks at an angle to align thesame.

2. In a device or" the class described, a support provided with aplurality of spaced slots arranged in oppositely disposed acutelyconverging pairs; a plurality of spaced posts slidably carried by saidsupport in said slots, and adapted to receive a pile of envelope blanksbetween them; an oscillat ing disc member carried by said support; apair of diametrically opposed wrist pins carried by said oscillatingmember; connections between each of said wrist pins carrier. by saidoscillating member and the pair of posts mounted in the adjacent acutelyconverging pair of slots for-reciprocating the latter to cause them toengage the ed es of said blanks at an acute angle to align the same; andmeans for oscillating said memher.

In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature.

ELIJAH Gr; VALLHCR.

